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The man faces sentencing Friday after pleading guilty to attempted murder in what authorities say was a plot to kill a couple in Southern California, in a case that highlights the reach of Mexican traffickers.

The monsoon rains have struck and the crowd remains huddled under a canopy, near plates of steaming food, as Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama strolls down the red carpet to open a waterfront picnic park in Fiji's capital, Suva.

As a wintry blast makes its way across the nation, Texas prepared for what one hardware store manager called "Ice Friday."

U.S. claims that dozens of Russian diplomats and their spouses cheated to get U.S. health-care aid meant for the poor drew a sharp rebuke Thursday from a top Russian official who blamed the criminal case on "Russophobic forces" interested in scuttling progress toward Russia-U.S. co-operation in confronting world conflicts.

An American chemistry teacher was shot to death as he was jogging in Benghazi on Thursday, highlighting persistently tenuous security in the eastern Libyan city where the U.S. ambassador was killed last year.

While the city's Metro-North Railroad is already getting hit with multimillion-dollar civil claims over a deadly commuter train derailment, prosecutors will face tough choices when deciding whether to bring criminal charges against the train's engineer, who told investigators he nodded or fell into a daze at the controls.

Nelson Mandela, who became one of the world's most beloved statesmen and a colossus of the 20th century when he emerged from 27 years in prison to negotiate an end to white minority rule in South Africa, has died.

The White House says the Obama administration has no reason to believe that a stolen shipment of highly radioactive cobalt-60 recovered in central Mexico posed a threat to the United States.

Jeffrey Dingman, center, arrives with his lawyers for a parole board meeting at the State Prison Thursday Dec. 5, 2013 in Concord, N.H. .

David Brierley, who raped a teenage girl just four months after being released from prison for an identical attack, has been jailed for life.

Two men who had been held without charge at the Guantanamo Bay for more than a decade have been sent back to their native Algeria against their will as part of a renewed effort to gradually close the prison, officials said Thursday.

Wildlife workers are returning to Everglades National Park in Florida on Thursday to try leading 41 pilot whales out of dangerously shallow waters and back to the ocean where they belong.

The Obama administration says it has patched hundreds of software bugs infecting the government's new health insurance website.

This photo provided by the Sundance Institute shows Kristen Stewart in a scene from the film, "Camp X-Ray."

Arizona inmate John McCluskey is a dangerous, cold-blooded killer who deserves nothing less than the death penalty for kidnapping and murdering a retired Oklahoma couple after a prison break, prosecutors said Wednesday.

The suspect in last month's fatal shooting at Los Angeles International Airport was ordered held without bond Wednesday, after saying he that he understood the charges against him.

An image reviewed by the U.S. military shows a U.S. flag flying above a razorwire-topped fence at the Camp Six detention facility December 10, 2008 on U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

For years, many celebrities in the U.S. and elsewhere have been open about being gay.

Orange County's former sheriff has lost an appeal to have his federal prison sentence reduced for a 2009 witness tampering conviction.

New DNA evidence tying another man to the 1996 rape-slaying of a northern Michigan woman discredits the confession of a mentally ill man now serving life in prison without parole, according to a law clinic that seeks freedom for the wrongly convicted.